The Alliance Mentality

Description

The success of any organisation depends on the relationship between leaders and people.

Most courses focus on how leaders behave with their people. This event, meanwhile, considers how we think about the people who lead us.

Through ten lessons in managing up for mutual gain, you will explore an alliance mentality that challenges traditional attitudes to leadership.

This interactive session draws on the psychology of leadership, team performance and followership, revealing the enabling and inhibiting habits of managing up, and offering fresh ideas and tangible actions.

Key Learning Outcomes

By the end of the event you will have:

• Explored and challenged your assumptions around the nature of leadership and what it means to be ‘led’

• Unpicked the habits, needs and mindsets that enable and inhibit your relationships with your boss and senior stakeholders

• Deepened your understanding of what it really means to trust and be trusted

• Worked and (if you’ve pushed yourself) honed the ‘muscles’ underpinning three of the four capacities required to survive and thrive in a volatile, uncertain, complex and ambiguous (VUCA) world

• Decided on clear, informed actions to take in whichever relationship you’ve put at the centre of your session work

• Absorbed frameworks and techniques you can apply to other stakeholder relationships

• Connected on another level with other members of The Henley Partnership

Event Content and Delivery Style

The event content will include:

• A guided exploration of the ‘inner workings’ of your boss/stakeholders

• Exploration of five relationship mind-sets that shape how you and your senior stakeholders show up in those important relationships

• The psychology of trust, building on Richard’s 2018 book The Boss Factor: 10 Lessons in Managing up for Mutual Gain

• Challenging self-reflection that digs into the subconscious and unconscious patterns driving your own behaviour in those upwards relationships

• An initial introduction to the four ‘complexity handling’ capacities at the heart of Richard’s forthcoming book (Upgrade: Building Your Capacity for Complexity) and active development of at least two of those capacities (we might have time for third)

The delivery style will include:

• Pre-work that asks you to identify your key senior stakeholders and prepare your thoughts on three critical questions

• Plenary input, discussion and Q&A

• Small group and paired discussion

Who Should Attend?

Mid-level managers seeking to enhance their relationships with more senior leaders, whether that’s direct line-management or across a matrix.

Key words

The primary theme is LEADERSHIP and the secondary theme is ENGAGEMENT.

It is relevant to the development of Engagement, Relationships, Partnership, Mutuality, Value.

THP, The Henley Partnership.

Richard Boston

Richard Boston is a psychologist specialising in leadership, followership and team performance as key drivers of success in organisations.

He’s the author of three books and works globally with a diverse client base that includes BHP, Deloitte, Gucci, Southampton Football Club, various charities, the government and the military.

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*Per member organisation. “Up to” indicates the maximum number per member organisation, it is not an allocation of places. All places are subject to availability at the time of nomination. Nomination Forms are dealt with on a first come first served basis and a place cannot be booked or held without a fully completed and approved Nomination Form.